Reply Button Issue Being Worked On

By Ben PopkenMarch 10, 2009

A number of users have reported that they’re having issues with the reply button not working or appearing in the comments. It popped up last week, then went away, and now it’s back again. Our tech team is on it and consider a high-priority. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Sidenote: While we’re still on the Gawker platform, you can directly submit bugs and errors to tech at getsatisfaction.com/gawker.

@calquist: Yeah, that was my first thought….If you must reply to someone…refreshing the page until you see the “profile” link at the top seems to be the only time the reply button actually works. It took me 5 times to get to reply to you!

Yeah, that’s happening to me on Safari 4 beta on OS X. (Everyone, post your browser – as a Web developer myself, sometimes things are a lot easier when you know which browsers are experiencing the issue, although it might be all browsers?)

Browser doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve used Safari 3 Mac, Firefox 3 Mac, Firefox 3 XP, and IE XP, and none have worked. Follow the suggestion above by Gokuhouse and reload over and over until you see the “profile” link if you really need to respond to someone.

on IE,Firefox and Google Chrome i have to hit the button twice and it finally sends it off. It all started after that 1 disemvowel :( and i thought..uh-oh i guess all it took was 1 bad monday morning and a cuppa dry humor and consumerist didn’t want this 1 silly lassy anymore :( *sniff *sniff

No, IT-Chick, refreshing the page doesn’t work. SOMETMIES the reply button works, usually it doesn’t, and refreshing the page doesn’t change that. If the “profile” link is not on the page, then I know it doesn’t work. It seems to not work on almost all posts except a random one or two.

Is gawker working a sabotage? They have a profile and logout link on the right edge of the header bar and you can click the reply button just fine over there. Maybe it is time to get off their “platform”.

@pecan 3.14159265: As for me, if I can’t interact with Consumerist, I’m going to deposit all those checks sent me by Nigerian 419 scammers, sign up for extended warranties, and ask my cable company to send over their stinkiest most incompetent repairperson at some random time within the next two weeks to hook up my converter box, now that TV has gone off the air. :-)

Blah. It worked a second ago (I replied to philmin), and now it’s not. Stupid Gawker POS “platform.”

IIRC, Gawker uses Movable Type as well… you’d think they’d either switch to a more “current” blogging platform (i.e. WordPress) or just write their own (my preference!). Yeah, I guess MT is under development still, but still…

Not a problem per se, but consumerist seems to have integrated something from facebook. (namely ak.connect.facebook.com when I’m loading pages) Unfortunately, facebook is a very popular site for companies to block on their web filters. How sad ;(